Module 5: Identifying Perspective Shifts and a Growth Mindset

The objective of this module is to identify your relationships with success, productivity, the rate of your progress, etc. and determine if they are effective or if they need to be shifted (and how to adopt the most effective growth mindset for you!)

Welcome to Module 5!

A glimpse into our lesson!

Module Breakdown

1. Reflect on Failure

2. Cultivate Resilience

3. Anticipate Risk

4. Why does it matter?

Activity and Lesson Plan

Lesson One: Reflect on Failure

Reflecting on failure is absolutely crucial because of the absolute inevitability of failure itself. Regardless of who you are, your life will inevitably be peppered in both big and small failures but it is what you do in those moments that determines who you are as an individual, entrepreneur, artist, writer, accountant, banker, computer scientist, doctor, or whatever other roles you might occupy.

Lesson Two: Cultivate Resilience

What is Resilience?

- Simply put, resilience is the process of adapting to challenging experiences and

persisting in that difficulty.

Why should we cultivate resilience?

- It is in your hands whether or not you bounce back. It is in your hands whether or

not you choose to rise to the challenge. It is in your hands whether or not you

simply make it happen. Resilience is the tool you need to truly grab onto the reins

and control the control-ables.

How do we cultivate resilience?

- Resilience theory tells us that this is not a fixed trait. This means that it is also not

a constant. Individuals may demonstrate disproportionately more resilience in

certain instances than in others and that is where our humanity truly shows.

- This same theory specifically highlights that resilience is tapped into as flexibility,

adaptability, and perserverance are practiced. This comes with truly believing in

oneself and that individual abilities (both intellectual and social) can be developed

and improved.

Lesson Three: Anticipate Risk

Passion comes with risk.

As such It's important that you anticipate the gravity of the risk that you are truly taking

on at any given moment. Passion is also infused with optimism. This is what makes it

such a beautiful, heart-warming thing. However, as William Arthur Ward

has so famously said:

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

Anticipating risk is what makes passionate people successful.

Lesson Four: Why does it matter?

This matters to you because a growth mindset is the absolute foundation of all

successful people regardless of background, regardless of interests, and regardless of

available resources.